Remembering Seymour Carter
July 27, 1936 – November 1, 2012
Seymour Carter at a protest in San Francisco, days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (photo by Stefan Laeng)
Seymour Carter, long-time Sensory Awareness leader, acting president of the Sensory Awareness Leaders Guild, and so much more, died suddenly in Chernovcy, Ukraine. He was on a teaching tour in Europe.
Was there anyone who didn't know him or know of him?
Was there any place he walked where people were not somehow changed?
He has joined the ether and I suspect he isn't done with us or with life.
Natalie Ednie, Sensory Awareness leader, Sandpoint ID
I had many conversations with Seymour about his work, some recorded, most not. Here is an excerpt from the February 11, 2008 interview in which he talks about meeting Charlotte Selver.
Charlotte Selver and Seymour Carter, Sensory Awareness Conference 2003, Fort Mason, San Francisco. (photo by Stefan Laeng)
Esalen's Resident Alien
Seymour Carter: Secular Sceptic in a Utopian Community (pdf)
An in-depth interview with Seymour about his decades long connection with Esalen.
Courtesy of John Callahan
Seymour Carter with Ned Dwelle, Amsterdam, October 23, 2012.
Seymour Carter, giving a class. Sensory Awareness Conference 2003, Fort Mason, San Francisco. (photo by Stefan Laeng)
Seymour Carter and Stefan Laeng.
Charlotte Selver's 1994 Study Group at Green Gulch Zen Center, Muir Beach, California.
Seymour gave the afternoon classes.
Seymour Carter on Monhegan Island, Maine, 1980.
Seymour Carter, Holland, 2012?
Images courtesy of Ned Dwelle and unknown others.